The public health response to covid - 19
As part of our response to the covid-19 pandemic, we ’re going to be running a series of discussions with experts about some of the big issues arising from the virus.
In this one, we’re asking about the public health response to an outbreak - what’s necessary, and is it possible to go to far.
Joining us are
Martin Mckee - professor of europ ean health at the London Schoole fo Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Kathleen Bachynski - assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College
Sridhar Venkatapura - associate professor global health& philosophy at
King's College London
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 12, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The public health response to covid - 19
As part of our response to the covid-19 pandemic, we’re going to be running a series of discussions with experts about some of the big issues arising from the virus.
In this one, we’re asking about the public health response to an outbreak - what’s necessary, and is it possible to go to far.
Joining us are
Martin Mckee - professor of european health at the London Schoole fo Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Kathleen Bachynski - assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College
Sridhar Venkatapura - associate professor global health & philosophy at
King's College London
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 12, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence covid-19 update - pneumonia, guidelines, preprints and testing
For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic.
There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing.
We're going to try to get away from the headlines and talk about what we need to know - to hopefully give you some insight into these issues.
This week
5.00 - Carl gives us an update about pneumonia in primary care, should you give antibiotics when you're not sure if it's bacterial or viral
10.00 - The importance and difficulty of making guidelines now
15.00 - We hear from guidelin...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence covid-19 update - pneumonia, guidelines, preprints and testing
For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic.
There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing.
We're going to try to get away from the headlines and talk about what we need to know - to hopefully give you some insight into these issues.
This week
5.00 - Carl gives us an update about pneumonia in primary care, should you give antibiotics when you're not sure if it's bacterial or viral
10.00 - The importance and difficulty of making guidelines now
15.00 - We hear from guideline...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Effects of starting antiretroviral therapy within one week of diagnosis on people living with HIV
Among the dozens of Cochrane Reviews of various treatments for people with HIV or AIDS, are some that look more at how the treatments should be used, rather than the treatments themselves. One of these examines the timing of the start of treatment, and it was published in June 2019. Lead author, Alberto Mateo from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, tells us about the evidence base and the findings for this important question. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Extending the UK's sugar tax to snacks
In the UK, for just over a year, we've been paying the "Soft Drinks Industry Levy" - a tax on sugary beverages intended to reduce our consumption of free sugars.
That was based on taxes that had happened in other countries, however, in the UK high sugar snacks, such as confectionery, cakes, and biscuits make a greater contribution to intakes of free sugars as well as energy than sugar sweetened beverages.
Now new research models what extending the sugar t ax to those snacks would do to our energy intake, and then onto the BMI of the nation.
Pauline Scheelbeek, assistant professor in nutritional and environmental epidem...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Extending the UK ’s sugar tax to snacks
In the UK, for just over a year, we've been paying the "Soft Drinks Industry Levy" - a tax on sugary beverages intended to reduce our consumption of free sugars.
That was based on taxes that had happened in other countries, however, in the UK high sugar snacks, such as confectionery, cakes, and biscuits make a greater contribution to intakes of free sugars as well as energy than sugar sweetened beverages.
Now new research models what extending the sugar tax to those snacks would do to our energy intake, and then onto the BMI of the nation.
Pauline Scheelbeek, assistant professor in nutritional and environmental epidemio...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The government is lacking detail over Brexit planning
Brexit.
Who knows what’s going to happen in the next few weeks, months, years - the uncertainty is high.
In the face of that, you’d hope that the government was doing all it could to plan for any eventuality - let alone for a massive, country altering one like suddenly crashing out without a deal - b ut Martin McKee, professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and David Nicholl, Consultant Neurologist, don’t think that’s the case.
In the debate about Brexit, increasingly we’re hearing about the impact on health in the UK - and in increasingly doomed ways. But what about ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The government is lacking detail over Brexit planning
Brexit.
Who knows what’s going to happen in the next few weeks, months, years - the uncertainty is high.
In the face of that, you’d hope that the government was doing all it could to plan for any eventuality - let alone for a massive, country altering one like suddenly crashing out without a deal - but Martin McKee, professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and David Nicholl, Consultant Neurologist, don’t think that’s the case.
In the debate about Brexit, increasingly we’re hearing about the impact on health in the UK - and in increasingly doomed ways. But what about ac...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The sex lives of married Brits
The National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles is a deep look into the sex lives of us brits - and has been running now for 30 years, giving us some longitudinal data about the way in which those sex lives have changed. The latest paper to be published, based on that data, looks at the frequency of sex - how often different groups are having sex on a weekly basis, and has reported a drop in that frequency for some groups.
Joining us to talk about the research, and why we're having less sex, is Kaye Wellings, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The sex lives of married Brits
The National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles is a deep look into the sex lives of us brits - and has been running now for 30 years, giving us some longitudinal data about the way in which those sex lives have changed. The latest paper to be published, based on that data, looks at the frequency of sex - how often different groups are having sex on a weekly basis, and has reported a drop in that frequency for some groups.
Joining us to talk about the research, and why we're having less sex, is Kaye Wellings, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Read t...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Making multisectoral collaboration work
A new collection of articles published by The BMJ includes twelve country case studies, each an evaluation of multisectoral collaboration in action at scale on women ’s, children’s, and adolescent’s health.
Collectively these twelve studies inform an overarching synthesis and accompanying commentaries, drawing together lessons learned in achieving effective multisectoral collaboration.
In this podcast, Wendy Graham, professor of obstetric epidemiology a t the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic advisor to the World Health Organisation, join us to discuss what can ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Making multisectoral collaboration work
A new collection of articles published by The BMJ includes twelve country case studies, each an evaluation of multisectoral collaboration in action at scale on women’s, children’s, and adolescent’s health.
Collectively these twelve studies inform an overarching synthesis and accompanying commentaries, drawing together lessons learned in achieving effective multisectoral collaboration.
In this podcast, Wendy Graham, professor of obstetric epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic advisor to the World Health Organisation, join us to discuss what can be...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?
Up to $500m a year could be put to better use by stopping ineffective and potentially harmful supplementation programmes in poorer countries, argues John Mason, professor emeritus at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
However Keith West, professor of infant and child nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
